YouTube’s Complete Corruption Revealed
In July of last year, we published an article entitled, “YouTube
Censorship Really Hits Home.” In that article, we told of our discovery that some
of our song parodies had been taken down from YouTube. I had
collaborated first with the Cheverly Brothers to set four political parodies of
Everly Brothers’ songs to music and then with Gary King, the video maker for
Jim Fetzer, to make them into videos. Those videos turned out to be
collateral damage in the taking down of Fetzer’s video channel by YouTube.
Something good came out of the experience, though. Fetzer,
as described in the article, had turned to the independent video platform,
153News, to carry his video channel. King had used his own software to produce
his Cheverly Brothers videos, so it was a relatively easy matter for him to put
them up at 153News. If you want to find those videos at 153 News
now, just go to the bottom of the pages, respectively, for Drones, You Won’t Fool Me, Bibi’s Clowns, and Devoted to Truth at my DCDave web site. The
hyperlinks that used to take you to YouTube now take you to 153News.
It was a close call, and I have to admit that I felt some degree
of distress that the effort that had gone into making those videos could have
turned out to be all for naught. Then I began to think of the
potential danger faced by the videos that I had done with other
collaborators. Should the new standard announced by Facebook’s Mark
Zuckerberg be adopted by YouTube, a number of them might at any time be deemed
too “dangerous” for the tender eyes and ears of the viewing public, and they,
too, could fall to the censor’s axe. In the case of those videos, I
had no confidence that there were saved copies that could simply be transferred
to 153News after the YouTube axe had fallen. It occurred to me that
I had better hasten to get all of them up on 153News as well as a precaution,
which is what I did, with the generous assistance of Jason Boss at 153News.
Those other videos can now be found on the DC
Dave channel of
153News. That page, unfortunately, only displays six of the 17
videos when you first call it up. If you want access to all 17, you
must click on “Videos” in the menu across the top, between “Home” and
“Playlists.”
Just recently, my fears for the fate of several of those videos
have come close to being realized. Eleven of them were made by a
fellow Southerner who advertises himself as a “redneck” and uses the screen
name of “Buelahman.” About a month ago, Wordpress, which had hosted his web site, beat YouTube to
the punch and unceremoniously, without warning or any sort of adequate
explanation, took down his colorful and informative web site. Go to Buelahman’s Twitter page and click on the buelahman.wordpress.com
supposed link that you find there and see what you get.
It was a continuation of a Wordpress political
purge that I first became aware of when they wiped out the equally provocative
and informative web site of Scott Creighton, known as American
Everyman. Now if you
want to see the great illustrations and read the comments on the articles of
mine that had been posted on Buelahman.com, where they had been posted for a
number of years up until we parted company a couple of years ago, you’ll have
to use the hit-or-miss method of the Internet archive known as the Wayback Machine.
For the time being, though, Buelahman’s excellent
video channel is still up on YouTube. The videos might be up there,
but that is not to say that they are completely uncensored. One will
discover in the first place that they are hard to find, sometimes even if you
know the exact title. The best example I found of that sort of
censorship was “A Song for 9/11.” I couldn’t find it even when I put
the title in along with the name of the channel, “Abuse Productions.” I
could locate it only by going to the Abuse Productions channel and scrolling
laboriously down until it eventually came up.
This is not the most egregious form of censorship that YouTube
employs, though. Now that we have 153News with which to compare it,
what we had long suspected is now obvious. YouTube clearly lies
about the number of views that “unapproved” political videos such as these
receive.
As video platforms go, tiny, obscure, shoestring
153News probably compares
to YouTube like the population of the smallest county in the United States
compares to that of the entire country. Considering YouTube’s near
monopoly on videos and the virtual obscurity of 153News, one would expect that
any video of mine that is up on YouTube would receive many times the views that
it would receive on 153News. Furthermore, each time I had a video of
my work posted on YouTube, I sent it to Rense.com, where it appeared as my
weekly submission to that very popular site. I have a column there,
and regular visitors to that site know where to find it. For a
period of a few days, my submissions also appear on Rense’s time-sensitive
center column. When I later put each video up on 153News, Rense didn’t put it up again, since the YouTube
version was still up. Consider as well, the fact that the videos
have all been up at YouTube for a much longer time than they have been up on
153News.
So, let’s see how the announced viewership compares:
|
Video |
YouTube |
153News |
||
|
|
Months |
Views |
Months |
Views |
|
60 |
10 |
7,117 |
||
|
61 |
10 |
7,003 |
||
|
61 |
10 |
7,068 |
||
|
59 |
10 |
7,062 |
||
|
51 |
9 |
6,772 |
||
|
55 |
9 |
6,875 |
||
|
57 |
5 |
5,358 |
||
|
61 |
10 |
7,281 |
||
|
54 |
10 |
7,002 |
||
|
53 |
9 |
6,782 |
||
|
54 |
9 |
33,272 |
||
|
55 |
10 |
7,160 |
||
|
59 |
10 |
7,556 |
||
|
82 |
10 |
8,192 |
||
|
19 |
9 |
6,878 |
||
|
47 |
10 |
7,031 |
||
|
82 |
10 |
7,063 |
||
We observed the number of views on May 6 and May 7. Over
that one-day period, the views on 153News increased on an average by a little
more than 40. For YouTube, the usual increase was one. We
can assume that that was the recording of my visit.
Could there be any better evidence than these measures of
accumulation and these measures of change that the YouTube viewer counts are
completely fraudulent? Just from observing the change over one day, we can
expect that by the time most people read this article, the count given here for
153News will be considerably below what readers will see when they visit the
video sites, but the YouTube numbers, you can be sure, will hardly have
increased at all.
Our rulers, our molders of public opinion, who clearly control
Google, which owns YouTube, recognize the power of the bandwagon
effect over public
opinion, and whatever the reality might be, they are determined not to let the
public know that a video that conveys too much forbidden truth has “gone
viral.” One can only wonder how many viewers have actually watched
“Waxing Indignant over 9/11 Truth,” “Falling to Pieces for Israel,” and “At
What a Cost?” on YouTube. It’s for them to know and for us never to
find out.
As a final note, should we update our comparisons of YouTube and
153News videos some months in the future, the table could be much larger than
the one you see here. The seven political song parodies on the list
above are only a small percentage of the ones that I have written, and, God
willing, I am not through writing them. I have collected almost all
that I have written so far at my Heresy Central blog. YouTube awaits further testing and
exposure, and perhaps there is a musical reputation waiting to be made.
David Martin
May 7, 2019
Addendum
After completing the article, I discovered two videos that Buelahman had done for me that I had overlooked. They
are “Martin
and Irvine on Vince Foster” and “We Came We Saw He
Died.” They
were added to the 153News DC Dave channel on the evening of May 9, now
displayed as the first two at the site. Viewership is proceeding
nicely with no announcement whatsoever. They will bear watching, but
it is too early to make any comparison with YouTube, where they have been
posted for years.
David Martin
May 10, 2019
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